Duuuddes God is so good

When God chooses to reveal truth in our lives, there is such great joy! And especially when it is truth that disproves satan's lies in our lives...ahhhh how much joy there is in that! 1 John 3:1-10 talks about Christ coming into the world with the purpose to destroy satan's work and lately this is what that has looked like in my life.
Basically I want to hear God's voice so I seek to understand the nature of God....this is a very delicate matter that takes much discernment and so much patience.....this is been a struggle for me lately because in my attempt to understand God's nature I think about people of the Bible, like Job or David and the example they set in pursuing God's will and I want to attach a formula to it so that God can speak to me too. But really although we can discern a lot about the nature of God by examing how He interacted with other believers, we need to be very slow to think that we can immediately apply the same actions of Job and David and expect the same result of God.
Honestly I know that trying to plug a formula into God's plan and expecting to get a result is soo foolish! But at the same time its so hard for me (and I believer many others) because we don't want the patience required to follow the Holy Spirit's leading. What we want is the answer of how to know Him. If you humor me, we want a Discernment for Dummies book. We want to know a how to to hear the Spirit. But again, the truth of God is a blessing that is spoken in our lives when He chooses to reveal it to us. Amen to that. Don't get me wrong, practicing disciplines like fasting and prayer obviously are very beneficial to our faith, but we must avoid doing them with expectation. Our relationship with God is too unique for us to expect that He will work the same way twice, and He will not let us fall into a pattern that turns our relationship with Him into that of a vending machine. All we are to do is to make ourselves available to Him, and as open to His Spirit as possible.